Fence



' ports, and metal rods or tubes united there UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY E. MAOREA, OF HUDSON, NFJV YORK.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,657, dated July 9, 1889. Application filed April 4, T389- Serial No. 305,996. (No model.)

To allwhom it may concern:

.Be it known that I, HENRY E. MACREA, of Hudson, in the county of Columbia and State of New York, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Cemetery an d'other Fences, of which the following is'a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates more particularly to fences which are made up of stone and metal as, for instance, stone posts or supwith. It is more especially intended for cemetery and other like fences, in which a series of stone posts are connected by a series of horizontal metal rods or tubes, and the invention will here be described accordingly; but it is equally applicable to fences or railings in which metal uprights or rods are secured at their lower ends in stone sills.

The invention consists in the novel construction of parts and combination of means for securely uniting the metal portions with r the stone or other portions of the structure,

substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speeiflca tion, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a broken and partly sectional elevation of a stone post of a cemetery or other like fence, and metal rods or tubes united thereto in accordance with my invention, .one of the nuts or flanges used to secure the rods or tubes to the post beingin section. Fig. 2 is a vertical section upon the line as a: in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal view of one end portion of one of the rods or tubes, with certain means for looking or holding the latter in the post; and Fig. 4 is a partly sectional elevation of a portion of a post and rod or tube with its securing means under a modified form of construction applied.

Referring in the first instance to Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings, A indicates a stone posthaving tapering recesses b I), made in its opposite sides, of greater area at their bases than at their outer ends. These tapering recesses or sockets are of a circular dovetail shape, and are designed by the aid of suitable securing means to hold the ends of the metal rods or tubes B, which are to be united to the postwithin them. Said sockets are sufficiently large in transverse section not only to receive through their outer and smaller ends the ends of the rods or tubes B, but also first one and then the other of two loosely-fitting half-sleeves C C encircling the rods or tubes, and which combined form a longitudinallydivided bushing, each half of which has its meeting face 0 and its interior surface constructedto form obtuse angles longitudinally, so as to admit of said half-sleeves or bushings rocking upon or about a pin or bolt (Z,

which passes transversely through the 'rod ortube and engages with notches c e in the faces 0 c of the half-sleeves or bushings O C at a suitable point in the length of the latter, or where the reverse angles of said surfacesmeet.

These half-sleeves form locking-levers or deend portions of the half sleeves C 0, when said portions are shut or brought together. These sleeves are held in such position, either by cars g g (see Figs. 1, 2, and 3) on the halfsleeves, which are engaged with the flangeD byfirst passing them through openings h h in said flange, and then, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, turning the latter to establish the lock, or by constructing said flange with an interior screw-thread adapted to engage with screw-threads 4) around the outer end portions of the half-sleeves O G, as shown in Fig. 4; or the closing and locking flange D may be otherwise constructed and applied to similarly act upon and hold the rocking looking devices or half-sleeves, the pin or bolt (1 keeping them from turning with the nut or flange D.

This forms a very simple and secure as well as ornamental means of uniting the metal rods or tubes with the stone post, and in case of applying the invention to upright rods or tubes inserted at their lower ends in stone sills,'the filling in with molten metal, which is the usual mode of uniting them, is dispensed with.

This invention is also applicableto fences in which the posts or supports are made of metal or other material than stone.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent 1. The combination, with the post or support having a tapering recess increasing in size toward its inner end, of a metal rod or tube fitting loosely at its end within said recess or socket, rocking locking devices connected'intermediately of their length to the sides of the entering end portion of the rod or tube, and a closing flange or nut on the rod, arranged to engage with said rocking devices, and operating to spread the inner end pornut or flange 1), applied to said rod or tube and to the outer end portions of the halfsleeves or bushings, and operating to expand the inner end portions of the latter within the tapering socket or recess in the post or 5 support, essentially as shown and described.

' HENRY E. MAOREA. Vv'itnessesz HENRY AVERY, JEREMIAH TA'roR. 

